Month: January 2019 | Chicago Community Bond Fund

Posted January 28, 2019

Incarcerated People Outside Cook County Jail Shoveling Snow For $2

This image was pulled from Snapchat and shared by La Villita, Chicago. We are alarmed that Sheriff Tom Dart appears to have incarcerated people outside Cook County Jail and shoveling snow without [...]

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Posted January 16, 2019

CCBF To Pay Edward Brown’s $20,000 Bond

On December 17, 2018, two Chicago police officers were struck by a Metra train and killed. Police allege that they were pursuing Edward Brown, a 24-year old Black man who had never been arrested [...]

By Chicago Community Bond Fund

In General

Posted January 10, 2019

240 People Currently Incarcerated at Cook County Jail Are There Because They Can’t Afford a Money Bond of $1,000 or less

Today, there are 5,888 people incarcerated in Cook County Jail. Of those people, at least 2,500 are being held pretrial simply because they can’t afford to pay a money bail. A recent report [...]

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